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It's frustrating when I catch it doing this because it's wasting tokens and time on what it reports as "one-off" scripts. Might add a requirement to never use shell scripting unless the task is truly a one liner.
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$ Hey, claude, I've figured out the powershell one-liner we need and I've pasted it below. Please insert it into the application.

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I have analysed your idiomatic one-liner and propose adding the following 30 lines into the application Yes/Yes and always accept such idiocy/No

ESCAPE ESCAPE

/clear

I want to update my powershell skill so that it writes idiomatic pipelines and does not introduce idioms from other languages.

[PASTES overeagerness wording from Claude prompting best practices]

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